Optogenetic control of nodal signaling reveals a temporal pattern of nodal signaling regulating cell fate specification during gastrulation

Sako, Keisuke; Pradhan, Saurabh; Barone, Vanessa; Inglés Prieto, Álvaro; Mueller, Patrick; Ruprecht, Verena; Capek, Daniel; Galande, Sanjeev; Janovjak, Harald L; Heisenberg, Carl-Philipp J

Optogenetic control of nodal signaling reveals a temporal pattern of nodal signaling regulating cell fate specification during gastrulation

Sako K, Pradhan S, Barone V, Inglés Prieto Á, Mueller P, Ruprecht V, Capek D, Galande S, Janovjak HL, Heisenberg C-PJ. 2016. Optogenetic control of nodal signaling reveals a temporal pattern of nodal signaling regulating cell fate specification during gastrulation. Cell Reports. 16(3), 866–877.

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10.1016/j.celrep.2016.06.036

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Sako, Keisuke^ISTA ; Pradhan, Saurabh; Barone, Vanessa^ISTA ; Inglés Prieto, Álvaro^ISTA ; Mueller, Patrick; Ruprecht, Verena^ISTA ; Capek, Daniel^ISTA ; Galande, Sanjeev; Janovjak, Harald L^ISTA ; Heisenberg, Carl-Philipp ^ISTA

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Janovjak Group

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Cell- and Tissue Mechanics in Zebrafish Germ Layer Formation
Cell Cortex and Germ Layer Formation in Zebrafish Gastrulation
Microbial Ion Channels for Synthetic Neurobiology

Abstract

During metazoan development, the temporal pattern of morphogen signaling is critical for organizing cell fates in space and time. Yet, tools for temporally controlling morphogen signaling within the embryo are still scarce. Here, we developed a photoactivatable Nodal receptor to determine how the temporal pattern of Nodal signaling affects cell fate specification during zebrafish gastrulation. By using this receptor to manipulate the duration of Nodal signaling in vivo by light, we show that extended Nodal signaling within the organizer promotes prechordal plate specification and suppresses endoderm differentiation. Endoderm differentiation is suppressed by extended Nodal signaling inducing expression of the transcriptional repressor goosecoid (gsc) in prechordal plate progenitors, which in turn restrains Nodal signaling from upregulating the endoderm differentiation gene sox17 within these cells. Thus, optogenetic manipulation of Nodal signaling identifies a critical role of Nodal signaling duration for organizer cell fate specification during gastrulation.

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2016

Date Published

2016-07-19

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Cell Reports

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Cell Press

Acknowledgement

We are grateful to members of the C.-P.H. and H.J. labs for discussions, R. Hauschild and the different Scientific Service Units at IST Austria for technical help, M. Dravecka for performing initial experiments, A. Schier for reading an earlier version of the manuscript, K.W. Rogers for technical help, and C. Hill, A. Bruce, and L. Solnica-Krezel for sending plasmids. This work was supported by grants from the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF): (T560-B17) and (I 812-B12) to V.R. and C.-P.H., and from the European Union (EU FP7): (6275) to H.J. A.I.-P. is supported by a Ramon Areces fellowship.

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866 - 877

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1100

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Sako K, Pradhan S, Barone V, et al. Optogenetic control of nodal signaling reveals a temporal pattern of nodal signaling regulating cell fate specification during gastrulation. Cell Reports. 2016;16(3):866-877. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2016.06.036

Sako, K., Pradhan, S., Barone, V., Inglés Prieto, Á., Mueller, P., Ruprecht, V., … Heisenberg, C.-P. J. (2016). Optogenetic control of nodal signaling reveals a temporal pattern of nodal signaling regulating cell fate specification during gastrulation. Cell Reports. Cell Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2016.06.036

Sako, Keisuke, Saurabh Pradhan, Vanessa Barone, Álvaro Inglés Prieto, Patrick Mueller, Verena Ruprecht, Daniel Capek, Sanjeev Galande, Harald L Janovjak, and Carl-Philipp J Heisenberg. “Optogenetic Control of Nodal Signaling Reveals a Temporal Pattern of Nodal Signaling Regulating Cell Fate Specification during Gastrulation.” Cell Reports. Cell Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2016.06.036.

K. Sako et al., “Optogenetic control of nodal signaling reveals a temporal pattern of nodal signaling regulating cell fate specification during gastrulation,” Cell Reports, vol. 16, no. 3. Cell Press, pp. 866–877, 2016.

Sako, Keisuke, et al. “Optogenetic Control of Nodal Signaling Reveals a Temporal Pattern of Nodal Signaling Regulating Cell Fate Specification during Gastrulation.” Cell Reports, vol. 16, no. 3, Cell Press, 2016, pp. 866–77, doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2016.06.036.

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